'12-'13 Government

'12-'13 Government
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Citizenship Test

Foundations of Government (3 weeks)
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• Preamble
• Modern Preamble Assignment
  • Comparative Politics
    • Britain
    • Colonial Government
    • IACoPi Comparative Government
  • Comparative Revolutions
  • Declaration of Independence
  • Articles of Confederation
  • Writing the Constitution
    • MyFakeWall
    • Founding Fathers - American Government
  • Summative Response

Three Branches (9 weeks)

• President
  • Article 2
    • Requirements of Office
    • Powers
      • GoogleDoc
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      • Anti-Federalist 67
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      • Anti-Federalist 70
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  • Roles of the President
  • Development of Modern Presidency
    • Roosevelt
    • Johnson
    • Nixon
  • Political Parties
    • Political Compass Test
  • Campaign 2012
    • Ads
      • Campaign Posters
      • Propaganda & Presidential Election (M & D)
      • Poster Assignment
    • Cost
  • Polls & Polling
  • Voting Rights: Freedom for All? (C&C)
  • Youth Vote/Youth Civic Engagement
    • Panel Discussion on Civic Engagement Through Social Media
      http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/ThroughS
  • Battleground States
• Electoral Collegevs Popular Vote - Bush v Gore
  • Pros, Cons, & Alternatives
• Cabinets
  • Executive Departments
  • Bureaucracy
• Congress
  • Article 1
    • Bicameral - Iowa as example
    • Congressional Powers
      • Federal Budget Allocation
    • Congressional Limits
  • Comparative Government - Parliament
  • How a Bill Becomes a Law
    • Committees
  • Congress in Your Life
    • Compare to N. Korea/China
  • Research Your Congressmen
    • Write a Letter
    • Redistricting
  • Public Criticism of Congress
  • How A Congressman Decides to Vote
• Courts
  • Article 3
  • Federalist 78
  • Judiciary Act of 1789
  • Document Analysis
    • Why so short?
    • Marbury v Madison (SC DBQs)
    • Informal Requirements/Implications
  • How the Court Functions
    • Chief Justice
    • How the Justices decide
      • Scalia Clip
  • Principal/Superintendent - School Law
  • Rule of Law
  • Checks & Balances

Bill of Rights & Civil Liberties (3 weeks)

• Article 4-7
  • Ratification of the Constitution - Seeds of Liberty (C&C)
  • Amendment Process
  • Student Bill of Rights
• Life without the Bill of Rights
• Bill of Rights & Fahrenheit 451 (M&D)
  • Speech
    • Information Age: Free to Surf? (C&C)
    • Expression & Students (M&D)
    • Tinker v Des Moines (SC DBQs)
  • Press
    • Blogs & Mainstream Media (M&D)
    • Hazelwood v Kuhlmeier (SC DBQs)
  • Religion
    • http://billofrightsinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Engel-eLesson.pdf
      
      
  • Assembly
    • http://billofrightsinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/SchenckvPCNY.pdf
      
      
  • Petition
• Rights of the Accused
  • Mapp v Ohio
  • Gideon v Wainwright
  • Miranda v Arizona (SC DBQs)
  • Bring in a cop
• Civil Rights Amendments
  • Plessy v Ferguson
  • Brown v Board of Ed
  • Regents of the University of CA v Bakke
  • Gratz v Bollinger (SC DBQs)
• The Other Amendments
  • Roe v Wade
  • Griswold v Connecticut (SC DBQs)
  • Do I Have a Right?
    
    
• Balancing Liberty & Security (C&C)

Local Government (2 weeks)

• Project Citizen
• Firsts in Iowa